bricabrac

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

bricabrac (usually uncountable, plural bricabracs)

  1. Alternative form of bric-a-brac
    • 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Meditations at Versailles”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume II, London: John Macrone, [], →OCLC, page 267:
      The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
    • 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “In which Philip Shows His Mettle”, in The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; [], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], published 1862, →OCLC, page 299:
      No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-dayu, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French bric-à-brac.

Noun[edit]

bricabrac n (plural bricabracuri)

  1. bric-a-brac

Declension[edit]